coverings worn over your ordinary shoes, worn especially in order to protect your shoes or to keep the surface you are walking on clean

Raised overshoes were worn by women to keep the hems of their dresses out of the mud.

The doctors and nurses had full face masks, goggles to cover their eyes and plastic overshoes.

The sealskin overshoes worn by Captain Scott on his last expedition to the South Pole are being conserved at the National Maritime Museum.